I bought my hive after a bit of web searching and ended up getting a technosetbee plastic bee hive.I'm happy enough with it as it came mostly as shown etc.

I'm thinking of getting a second hive already and putting it at a close friends house - they live adjoining the the ku-ring-gai wildflower garden here in Sydney, I'm hoping it would beideal.

So again I have the opportunity to choose a new hive and since I have to post a hello as a new member - I thought I'd also ask a question.

Some hives seem to have ventilation at the top - slits , or openings of some kind and some do not ( the Standard wood hived seem to have a lid which seems designed to keep heat in ) , I would have thought for hot Sydney Summers it would be a must ( or at least preferable ) to have a hive with some way of letting the heat out at the top..

So I assume I've missed the point or don't correctly understand how beesregulate hive temperatures .. or all the web info I'm looking at is aimed for bee hivesin cooler climates ?

the bees will regulate the temp by them selves on a hot day you will see them fanning wings but staying in the same spot some facing one way and other fanning the the outher way he bee hive a/c with top vents the bee will block them up in winter it dose help get rid of excess mostour and stop wood rot just be careful 1 leads to 2 to leads to 6 leads to 20 and 20 leads to around 70 in 4 years or so ha ha

the bees will regulate the temp by them selves on a hot day you will see them fanning wings but staying in the same spot some facing one way and other fanning the the outher way he bee hive a/c with top vents the bee will block them up in winter it dose help get rid of excess mostour and stop wood rot just be careful 1 leads to 2 to leads to 6 leads to 20 and 20 leads to around 70 in 4 years or so ha ha and have some fun and eat some good honey and make a dollar or 2